Tesla device

I got so carried away arranging my free cruise, that I completely forgot I had purchased a Nigerian lottery ticket.

With all this good advice I feel extremely lucky. Doubly so because I just won the lottery in Nigeria. Just need to send 10,000 to cover expenses. Am I lucky or what.

Electric meters are my life and I can tell you that if you have a "Smart Meter" on your house, playing games with the power Co is over for you. What that meter can tell the power co is really everything. Stealing power is really serious and it can cost you big time. If you have a fire, count on your ins co to look into it. As far as reactive power goes, residential single phase has little affect on the bill, big 3 phase it does. The killer for us domestic rate people will be when TOU (time of use) hits us. I know, this is TMI.

In my over six decades (well the last 5 of 'em) I have seen adds for many things, Super High Millage Carburetors and devices to make your car go farther on a gallon of gas.. Things that guarantee to cut your electric bill (And one of them actually does, Will discuss that), and more Magic this, Miracle That.

I have seen a demonstration (Video) of an engine that runs on all sorts of******(Waste oil, soda pop, water, basically any liquid) Amazing inventions.

I will start by explaining the engine... The poured the liquids into a standard water lock bottle, this is a bottle that has two pipes that extend down into it, one short, one long (the long one goes to near the bottom) the engine was hooked to the short pipe.. The man started it up, the liquids "Boiled" and the engine ran clean, as clean in fact as if it were powered by propane.

Attached to the long pipe (the one that extended down into the liquid) was a hose that ran out of sight.. I am 100% sure it was hooked to a propane tank.

So that's how he did it.

Why to I tell this... To explain how scammers scam.

I seriously doubt your Tesla device was, in fact, invented by Tesla. nor do I think it will improve your electric bill.

Oh, the one device that actually does? It is called a power factor controller.. Take devices that have motors (They only work on inductive loads) and plug one of these into its power line,, Could be a Furnace, Air conditioner (Very good here) De-Humidifier (what i used it on) Refrigerator, Any device with a motor.

They measure the Power factor (NOTE: if you wish I can explain how that works but if you want to measure a Power Factor,, the Kill-a-watt meter (About a kilo-buck worth of meters in a 20 dollar box) has a PF button,, Power factor)

The ideal power factor is 1.0,, This means that every watt is doing exactly 1 watt worth of work.

Some motors may be as low as 0.5, I have heard of cases where it hit 0.0. (Lots of power in, no energery out). the Power factor controllers try to bring the power factor up to 1.0

IF you see a label with "Volt-Amps" printed on it, That means Volts times Amps, this is what you pay for.. Volts Times Amps, Times POWER FACTOR, is what you get. So bringing the power factor closer to 1.0, means you use less power.

"But wait... There's more... If you call within the next 30 minutes, we will also send you our original Miracle Mop for absolutely free - guaranteed to cut cleaning time in half!"

I believe the OP is talking about those power factor correction devices-
http://www.nlcpr.com/Deceptions1.php

Quote:
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is the chairman of SolarCity's board. SolarCity announced Wednesday that it will open a local solar operations center in Albuquerque this month, and it initially expects to hire 30 to 50 local employees in sales, installation and related roles. The company will initially serve homeowners who are customers of PNM in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces. Unquote
This was in the Albuquerque Tribune.

bgant4 wrote:
I see advertised a device invented by Tesla that cuts your electric bill. Can't seem to find any info on this.

Perhaps they mean this Solar City home Storage

It is in reference to the battery systems that Tesla is making in the new factories in Reno, Nevada and I can not remember where else. Tesla and Solar City are run by the same company more or less and this is a big deal in the energy management systems that are now and in the future being installed. The link is but a short blip I Googled but I have read recently a large article that was put out.
Bottom line is your home or regional energy systems would be able to make the electric in the day and store excess in the batteries to run the home at night or during power outages, for days, just like us RVers do now but for overnight.

jimR

Yes, we have Tesla to thank for the AC electric motor. He and Edison got into quite a battle between AC and DC current. Edison used the Electric Chair as an example how dangerous AC power was.

wilber1 wrote:
Tesla could mean anything but if it is Elon Musk's company I wouldn't just blow it off.

It's not. Elon Musk's company would be Solar City and certainly does not offer this junk.
Unfortunately I don't think Solar City operates in FL.